For the long nights you lay awake
And watched for my unworthy sake:
For your most comfortable hand
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Stevenson could have a dark side, but then you read something like this and the sentimentality and compassion is awe inspiring. The rhyming helps too.
Children's lives should be filled with the voice reading stories out loud at their bedside. Adventures in an atmosphere of warmth and love- -a very good childhood is this.
Nice piece of work. Thanks for sharing this poem with us. E.K.L.
What is a wonderful poem I like this poem